When comparing Codeship vs Netlify, the Slant community recommends Codeship for most people. In the question“What are the best continuous deployment services?” Codeship is ranked 3rd while Netlify is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Codeship is:
Support for public and private GitHub and BitBucket repositories. It also has support for multi-user teams.
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Pros
Pro GitHub & Bitbucket integration
Support for public and private GitHub and BitBucket repositories. It also has support for multi-user teams.
Pro Keeps it simple. Doesn't allow too many "tricky" things which means builds are generally very stable once they are up and going.
Pro Headless browser support
Alongside latest Chrome and Firefox, Codeship supports the use of Selenium, PhantomJS, CasperJS as well as tools like Capybara.
Pro Build status GIF
There's a continuously updated GIF of the build status of the repository allowing you to determine whether build was successful or not.
Pro Support for multiple tools, languages and databases
Support for e-mail, HipChat, Slack, Campfire, Flowdock, Grove, Webhook, Github Status API.
Support for Ruby, Python, Node, Dart, PHP, Java, Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Go.
Support for: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached, ElasticSearch, SQLite.
Pro Supports 7 cloud providers
Support for AWS, Digital Ocean, Rackspace, Google Compute, Joyent, Softlayer, Openstack.
Pro Docker support
Pro Simple deployments with a choice of 5 deployment tools
Support for Capistrano, Fabric, Chef, Puppet, Ansible and allows for writing your own scripts to deploy and manage your infrastructure.
Pro Supports 10 hosting providers
Support for Heroku, Engine Yard, Nodejitsu, dotCloud, App Engine, AppFog, Modulus, Openshift, Cloud Foundry, Fortrabbit and you can also run your own script to deploy anywhere.
Pro FTP, SFTP, SCP, RSYNC and SSH support
You can use FTP, SFTP, SCP, RSYNC and SSH for Continuous Deployment.
Pro Code Climate & Coveralls support
Automated code review for RoR and JavaScript and test coverage history and statistics with Code Climate and Coveralls.
Pro Netlify CDN
Pro Free one-click SSL
Pro Continuous deployment
Pro Custom domains
Pro Versioning and rollbacks
Pro Free tier
Netlify's PRO Plan now Free for Open-Source Projects
Pro Webhooks and integrations
Pro Redirect, rewrite and proxy rules
Pro Full featured CLI
Pro Custom HTTP headers
Pro Support simple forms
Pro Post processing
The post processing doesn't really work. It's a good idea, though!
Pro Functions
Can deploy aws functions without an aws account.
Pro Multiple environment support
Pro Atomic deploys
Pro RESTful API
Cons
Con Doesn't support git modules
If repo contain private submodule - build will fail, no way to add your private key.
Con Any time you ask support for help on Codeship basic (which isn't free anyway), they will just try to up sell you to Pro version.
Con No Global variables that can be shared amongst all projects.
Con Environment variables are exposed. Any keys or secrets can just be copied.
No option to mask them unless you reduce permissions for those users. Developers need to be able to modify a job but probably shouldn't be able to copy a production api key. Just needs one more level of permissions here.
Con Too many permissions on Bitbucket
When registering with Bitbucket Codeship it requests way to many permissions, even "Read and write to your team's projects and move repositories between them". Before giving all these permissions you have to be sure you can trust this service.
